EBN Congress 2018 - Future of Innovation
6 June 2018 - 8 June 2018
Belgium
Between 6-8 June, 2018, professionals in the innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship community will gather in Eschsur-Alzette (Luxembourg). Over three days of conference sessions, workshops, pitching sessions, matchmaking and networking activities, they will explore the future of innovation.
The EBN Congress 2018, ‘Future of Innovation’ is jointly organised by EBN and Technoport SA, a member that was
founded in 1998 and joined EBN in the same year; and that will celebrate its 20th anniversary during the Congress.
EBN Congress 2018 is structured around three main topics:
• SCALE UP and GROWTH
• SPACE
• INDUSTRY
Corporates, startups, entrepreneurs and experts in the innovation and incubation arena will come together to share their insights with delegates. Each day will kickoff with an inspirational speech, leading to a challenging discussion. On Wednesday, 6th of June, we will hear the amazing success story of Talkwalker, a company that scaled-up from 2 to 200. This keynote will be followed by panel discussion around how to support companies to scale, what incubation models can work and the challenges and opportunities in collaborations between startups and corporates. On Thursday, 7th of June, we will go into orbit on the subject of space. In close collaboration with EBN, ESA and the ESA BICs we will touch upon topics around visions, expectations, impacts, roles and missions to promote and foster the space sector. Finally on Friday 8th of June you will learn how industry faces and applies
innovation, what incubation models emerge in industry, how to finance industrial startups and what a successful
cooperation between corporates, startups and EU|BICs implies.
Interactive and dynamic content form the cornerstone of these sessions and we want to foster debate and learning among participants. The Future of Innovation is in your hands so let’s embrace it!
Startups of the future
As we saw at last year’s Congress in France, startups are at the core of the work done by EBN members. The exhibition area for the startups and corporates will be at the heart of this Congress. Networking activities, pitching training and battles, and matchmaking with corporates will be organised for the startups coming from all around the world.
Corporates open up the future
A key feature of all the EBN Congress events has been the symbiotic relationship between corporates, EU|BICs and startups. Since we began our activity in the arena of Open Innovation, EBN members have seen the relationship with corporates as a collaboration, and at Congress this collaboration will be further strengthened. Corporates from different countries will have the opportunity to meet startups from different parts of the world as the EBN Congress increasingly serves to become a hub for international innovation and incubation.
Two decades of innovation excellence
Created back in 1998, Technoport is the first and still largest incubator in Luxembourg. It immediately joined EBN to
learn from peers and access the network capabilities offered by membership. Today Technoport’s brand and business model is recognised at an international level. EBN is proud to partner with one of its oldest members for this year’s Congress and support its 20th anniversary in a postindustrial and uniquely inspirational environment.
http://www.ebncongress.eu
The EBN Congress 2018, ‘Future of Innovation’ is jointly organised by EBN and Technoport SA, a member that was
founded in 1998 and joined EBN in the same year; and that will celebrate its 20th anniversary during the Congress.
EBN Congress 2018 is structured around three main topics:
• SCALE UP and GROWTH
• SPACE
• INDUSTRY
Corporates, startups, entrepreneurs and experts in the innovation and incubation arena will come together to share their insights with delegates. Each day will kickoff with an inspirational speech, leading to a challenging discussion. On Wednesday, 6th of June, we will hear the amazing success story of Talkwalker, a company that scaled-up from 2 to 200. This keynote will be followed by panel discussion around how to support companies to scale, what incubation models can work and the challenges and opportunities in collaborations between startups and corporates. On Thursday, 7th of June, we will go into orbit on the subject of space. In close collaboration with EBN, ESA and the ESA BICs we will touch upon topics around visions, expectations, impacts, roles and missions to promote and foster the space sector. Finally on Friday 8th of June you will learn how industry faces and applies
innovation, what incubation models emerge in industry, how to finance industrial startups and what a successful
cooperation between corporates, startups and EU|BICs implies.
Interactive and dynamic content form the cornerstone of these sessions and we want to foster debate and learning among participants. The Future of Innovation is in your hands so let’s embrace it!
Startups of the future
As we saw at last year’s Congress in France, startups are at the core of the work done by EBN members. The exhibition area for the startups and corporates will be at the heart of this Congress. Networking activities, pitching training and battles, and matchmaking with corporates will be organised for the startups coming from all around the world.
Corporates open up the future
A key feature of all the EBN Congress events has been the symbiotic relationship between corporates, EU|BICs and startups. Since we began our activity in the arena of Open Innovation, EBN members have seen the relationship with corporates as a collaboration, and at Congress this collaboration will be further strengthened. Corporates from different countries will have the opportunity to meet startups from different parts of the world as the EBN Congress increasingly serves to become a hub for international innovation and incubation.
Two decades of innovation excellence
Created back in 1998, Technoport is the first and still largest incubator in Luxembourg. It immediately joined EBN to
learn from peers and access the network capabilities offered by membership. Today Technoport’s brand and business model is recognised at an international level. EBN is proud to partner with one of its oldest members for this year’s Congress and support its 20th anniversary in a postindustrial and uniquely inspirational environment.
http://www.ebncongress.eu
Keywords
Growth, Space, Industry, Industry4.0, Scale up, Internationalisation, startups, investors, corporates